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Perhaps; I ran it twice last night about an hour or two before posting.



Agreed, the UI looks great.



I'm mostly in terminals as well, even on OS X. But a steamlined, usable UI is...

Finally have Oneiric running with native resolution. The script ran fine for me, but after the first reboot I did not get native resolution. I power cycled, ran linux with nomodeset, ran the script...

Here's my output:


berto@g6:~$ sudo gptsync /dev/sda

Current GPT partition table:
# Start LBA End LBA Type
1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)
2 409640 ...

Hmm, I may have put the fix in the wrong script, but here is a fix in a gist on github. Should it be relocated?

Please take a look; any comments welcome.

https://gist.github.com/1205289

I think the main problem was not running apt-get distupgrade. When running nmcli I was getting errors that the command was not compatible with the backend or something to that effect.

I ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on my oneric install and after a reboot I was unable to get on the network and everything was super funky. If I'm not able to get it on the network I'll...

Does it make sense to create a PPA on launchpad specifically for the MBA?

Wow, that's awesome, dfacto!

I'll soon find out myself, but how good is the trackpad integration. Does it provide vertical and horizontal scrolling?

I am dual-booting right now using rEFIt; is there a better way? Sometimes rEFIt takes forever, which is not desirable.

dfacto, my MBA is at home, so I can check gptsync after work.

This entire thread is an excellent source of information for getting the MBA running with Ubuntu, but has anyone seen a single-post writeup on getting the system running end-to-end? I think the list...

I think you're over-reacting just a wee bit. Let's try to stay on topic.

I didn't do anything too special. Parallels pretty much took care of the entire setup. Settings-wise, I used 128MB for video, 1280MB of RAM, a 64G "expanding disk" image, and a shared network...

I've been way out of the loop in this thread, but the following update on another thread seems to show some success:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11164803&postcount=29

What model Macbook Air do you have? I have the 13"/i7/256G and with virtualbox ran into some serious issues when putting the machine to sleep and waking it up. The laptop would completely freeze...

I updated the freedesktop post with reference to this bounty.

I looked for about an hour and found nothing useful! Incredible; sounds like a nice side project.

Anyone here using bitcoin? Would that work? Not exactly escrow, but it makes sending money...

I was seriously considering the thinkpad X1; the high-end MBA was a better machine for my dollar. I'm bummed that I'm currently not able to run Linux natively on it; can't wait for the video drivers...

+$50 here.

Just for kicks, what if you have the display port -> HDMI connected to the laptop, but no monitor? Does the laptop screen work?

You need to logout, drop to a console, stop gdm, and then run the command:


Xorg -configure

I noticed when rebooting my machine the rEFIt menu would take about 20 seconds to show up. I found the post below that says to reset the PRAM by holding down cmd+option+p+r and letting the machine...

@dfacto For the trackpad, have you tried the mactel support PPA at https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support/+archive/ppa? My system is currently on Oneiric and the PPA only goes up to Natty so I've not...

I second that. My wife is a student and I got ~$60 off the machine + $100 App store coupon (USA). In our case, they did ask for a student ID, or proof of registration by logging into the school's...

This is a great question; I was wondering the same thing.

I can confirm a brick-free install of both 64-bit natty and 64-bit oneiric. My process for installing was:


resizing the partition
installing rEFIt
rebooting 3 or so times for rEFIt to show...